I have around 10 wordpress sites hosted in aapanel. A customer alerted me that some of their pages in google rankings have page title of another one of my customers website. I checked some other websites i host and they also have the same site which is first in the list alphebetically. So let call it site 1. Not all pages on sites have site 1 as their page title. Sites 1 page title that applied to other sites is always the same title. No idea how long this going on. I do not clone sites when i create a new website in WP Toolkit. I self host on inside vitualbox on ubuntu lts. I have fixed public wan ip from my ISP under business plan. Site 1 was not the first domain i added to aapanel. I actually created domains under Websites long before that. I am using letsencypt for all wp tool kit sites which i generate in the sites ssl settings area.

Google bots mixing up my customers websites

aaP_khr100

I have around 10 wordpress sites hosted in aapanel. A customer alerted me that some of their pages in google rankings have page title of another one of my customers website. I checked some other websites i host and they also have the same site which is first in the list alphebetically. So let call it site 1.

Not all pages on sites have site 1 as their page title.
Sites 1 page title that applied to other sites is always the same title.
No idea how long this going on.
I do not clone sites when i create a new website in WP Toolkit.
I self host on inside vitualbox on ubuntu lts.
I have fixed public wan ip from my ISP under business plan.
Site 1 was not the first domain i added to aapanel. I actually created domains under Websites long before that.
I am using letsencypt for all wp tool kit sites which i generate in the sites ssl settings area.

aaP_khr100

I think I found part of the problem. It should take out the bridge, but not sure it is fixing the actually underlying problem.

I noticed the page title that being applied was the raw title of the website and not the wordpress homepage title. This alerted me that seems very HTML title than wordpess seo's page title.

Upon looking I found index.html in the site the customer alerted me too which had been placed then from the wizard when i created the site and it gave me the option to create index.html and i forgot to untick. I opened up the index.html just to confirm it was created by aapanel.

I then checked all the sites on google and not every site had the site 1 title. I then went through the file directories for each site and it was a 1:1 correlation between those that had the index.html and those that didn't vs the issue on google. I have deleted the affected sites and hopefully google will sort it out on its own.

I did also note that google has ranked site 1 in all searches of sites 2-10 seeing it as important or relavant. Would be nice to know the nuts and bolts of what is going on with aapanel and google here as it is not natural for typical cpanel shared servers i have used for many years.